Linus should do what he does best: crank out some good software and then wait for the world to adopt it. He did it with Linux, he did it with Git. He should make (or at least officially endorse) an official Linux desktop and watch as nerds treat it as such.
If she had her way, all the tech bought would be license plate scanners, facial recognition cameras, wiretaps, weakening of cryptography, DNA databases.
Yes, it will encourage complacency. Yes lifeguards will pay less attention. Yes less lifeguards will be staffed. Yes parents will put less emphasis on water safety. These are good things, and here's why. It's automation done right. Right now, a lifeguard's job is to watch over pools and readily respond to emergencies and render aid. If a computer can do the job of watching the pool much better than we can, the job of a lifeguard can just hang out and be ready to respond to someone drowning and fish them out and render aid. Drowning at a pool would be next to impossible.
That's not how it works. What we need is rich, good technologists to lobby politicians to do the right thing. Finding good, incorruptible people is the real problem that needs to be solved, and it's hard to do that when step 1 is to bribe a politician.
Christians don't want their kids reading Harry Potter because it tells stories of sorcery (other than god's). Doesn't that mean that the entire concept of superheroes is blasphemous on it's face?
I mean it kind of does. I always had a hard time going to sleep on time at night and waking up early for school. In fact, I was one tardy away from failing high school and I was late to my own graduation when I avoided failing!
And you know what? When I got jobs, I found that the real world wasn't like school. I started working at 9, 11, 12, 14. I hate waking up early so now I don't.
It is a MITM in this case, a corporate-sponsored and condoned one. It's not the ISP doing it, but it's still the textbook definition of a MITM attack. A third party between the user and their requested destination that is decrypting and obtaining their network traffic.
Most of the time it is MITM, by method of adding a new cert to your trust list. I know because my company does this and I have to add these certs to Firefox since it doesn't use the Windows cert store. Without the cert, they can't MITM your traffic and you just can't access any websites through firefox until the MITM cert is trusted.
My narrow focus is on Stallman and how he thinks. You say it only spies on him when and where he chooses. Guess what genius, the acceptable amount of spying that he permits is ZERO. That's what being a purist means. That prepaid phone from Walmart runs proprietary software.
Here's a serious answer: Because when he takes the phone out of the Faraday cage, it'll instantly start spying on him again. The phone would be his, the billing would be tied to his name, and his whereabouts would be tracked when it came out. Also, the phone and apps are proprietary, which he refuses to use and support.
Oh and also he believes credit cards to also be an intrusive form of surveillance so he doesn't have any. It's hard to pay for phone service without one.
I actually saw a different opinion on this recently that kind of changed my mind on the issue. Like most people, I agreed with you: no work = no pay, especially when they're causing bigger problems than are being fixed. The argument I heard against this is that rich congress people could use government shutdowns as a weapon against people who aren't rich. Congressional salary isn't high, of course these people are all rich from previous endeavors and/or lobbyists or other political bullshit. We don't want to punish people in government who aren't rich or have principles, right?
This is affectionately known as "LAN-hacking". The term comes from LAN parties where one player would just look at the screen of their opponent. You can do the same thing in CS over the internet. Just wait for one of your teammates to die and then have them ghost/noclip/fly around and tell their still-living teammates where the enemy is. The game has an option to make dead players' screen black for competitive matches.
I hate to defend Uber, but I really feel like they carry a very small part of the blame in this. Sure, there was a memo about the automated cars hitting things, but isn't that exactly the problem they're trying to fix? They're putting their cars through real-world tests to improve that, with human operators present in case the automated system fails.
Isn't this the same thing we do with airplanes? Autopilot automates much of the flight, with a couple pilots present in case the automated system fails. On those rare occasions that it fails, the autopilot software makers don't get sued. Instead we look into why the pilot failed to do their job.
In this case, we know exactly why the driver didn't do their job. We have video of her shirking her responsibilities and watching videos instead of the road.
My theory is that chess seems intellectual, people appear smart by playing it. To play it well, I think you have to be. I hope Starcraft has the same staying power and becomes the game we play and watch for centuries:)
People make the same mistakes. Language is complicated, evolving, and misused constantly. If you told me to type out that sentence, I might assume the guy had a bear for a head also.
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Linus should do what he does best: crank out some good software and then wait for the world to adopt it. He did it with Linux, he did it with Git. He should make (or at least officially endorse) an official Linux desktop and watch as nerds treat it as such.
Everyone complains about how fat kids are, now they're losing weight and that's a bad thing!
And heaven forbid kids don't play sports, their bodies will remain in decent condition and colleges won't be able to exploit them for money!
If she had her way, all the tech bought would be license plate scanners, facial recognition cameras, wiretaps, weakening of cryptography, DNA databases.
Yes, it will encourage complacency. Yes lifeguards will pay less attention. Yes less lifeguards will be staffed. Yes parents will put less emphasis on water safety.
These are good things, and here's why. It's automation done right. Right now, a lifeguard's job is to watch over pools and readily respond to emergencies and render aid. If a computer can do the job of watching the pool much better than we can, the job of a lifeguard can just hang out and be ready to respond to someone drowning and fish them out and render aid. Drowning at a pool would be next to impossible.
That's not how it works. What we need is rich, good technologists to lobby politicians to do the right thing. Finding good, incorruptible people is the real problem that needs to be solved, and it's hard to do that when step 1 is to bribe a politician.
He is trying too hard? It's a well-known court case, what exactly are you disagreeing with?
Christians don't want their kids reading Harry Potter because it tells stories of sorcery (other than god's). Doesn't that mean that the entire concept of superheroes is blasphemous on it's face?
I mean it kind of does. I always had a hard time going to sleep on time at night and waking up early for school. In fact, I was one tardy away from failing high school and I was late to my own graduation when I avoided failing!
And you know what? When I got jobs, I found that the real world wasn't like school. I started working at 9, 11, 12, 14. I hate waking up early so now I don't.
It is a MITM in this case, a corporate-sponsored and condoned one. It's not the ISP doing it, but it's still the textbook definition of a MITM attack. A third party between the user and their requested destination that is decrypting and obtaining their network traffic.
Most of the time it is MITM, by method of adding a new cert to your trust list. I know because my company does this and I have to add these certs to Firefox since it doesn't use the Windows cert store. Without the cert, they can't MITM your traffic and you just can't access any websites through firefox until the MITM cert is trusted.
My narrow focus is on Stallman and how he thinks. You say it only spies on him when and where he chooses. Guess what genius, the acceptable amount of spying that he permits is ZERO. That's what being a purist means. That prepaid phone from Walmart runs proprietary software.
Here's a serious answer:
Because when he takes the phone out of the Faraday cage, it'll instantly start spying on him again. The phone would be his, the billing would be tied to his name, and his whereabouts would be tracked when it came out. Also, the phone and apps are proprietary, which he refuses to use and support.
Oh and also he believes credit cards to also be an intrusive form of surveillance so he doesn't have any. It's hard to pay for phone service without one.
A 2 party system has only 1 more party which really isn't much.
I actually saw a different opinion on this recently that kind of changed my mind on the issue. Like most people, I agreed with you: no work = no pay, especially when they're causing bigger problems than are being fixed. The argument I heard against this is that rich congress people could use government shutdowns as a weapon against people who aren't rich. Congressional salary isn't high, of course these people are all rich from previous endeavors and/or lobbyists or other political bullshit. We don't want to punish people in government who aren't rich or have principles, right?
This is affectionately known as "LAN-hacking". The term comes from LAN parties where one player would just look at the screen of their opponent. You can do the same thing in CS over the internet. Just wait for one of your teammates to die and then have them ghost/noclip/fly around and tell their still-living teammates where the enemy is. The game has an option to make dead players' screen black for competitive matches.
So maybe all our excessive screen time isn't so bad after all? As long as we're not showing social media on them...
I hate to defend Uber, but I really feel like they carry a very small part of the blame in this. Sure, there was a memo about the automated cars hitting things, but isn't that exactly the problem they're trying to fix? They're putting their cars through real-world tests to improve that, with human operators present in case the automated system fails.
Isn't this the same thing we do with airplanes? Autopilot automates much of the flight, with a couple pilots present in case the automated system fails. On those rare occasions that it fails, the autopilot software makers don't get sued. Instead we look into why the pilot failed to do their job.
In this case, we know exactly why the driver didn't do their job. We have video of her shirking her responsibilities and watching videos instead of the road.
How dare you mock their religion! The Torah/Bible/Koraan has all the answers! Except when it's inconvenient or it doesn't of course.
Intellectuals understand that the words they speak aren't properly, and can't be stolen via theft.
My theory is that chess seems intellectual, people appear smart by playing it. To play it well, I think you have to be. I hope Starcraft has the same staying power and becomes the game we play and watch for centuries :)
I agree, trolling is a art.
It doesn't cost money, but you do have to use the Microsoft store. Some things cost more than just money.
People make the same mistakes. Language is complicated, evolving, and misused constantly. If you told me to type out that sentence, I might assume the guy had a bear for a head also.
What he says is the truth. Mine only needs a light projected on the ceiling, I love my little mop.
This isn't property and thus can't be stolen.